Energy begins to implement the segmentation of gas and electricity tariffs

On Tuesday, the Government brought forward the technical phase of the decree which established, in the middle of this month, a tariff segmentation regime for residential users of gas and electricity services. It did so through the Secretary of Energy, who detailed some of them in the Official Gazette important points about the instrumentation of this removal of subsidies.

Resolution 467/2022, signed by Dario Martinezprincipal responsible for the dependence that is in the orbit of the Ministry of Economy, in its first article instructed the Undersecretary for Energy Planning to apply the rules to a part of the population, as established by decree 332/2022, published on June 16 .

You should also “establish, make operational and keep up-to-date the Access Register to energy subsidies (RASE), on the basis of sworn declarations that must be presented by users of energy services “.

“The aforementioned undersecretary will be able to request from the corresponding Bodies, with the determined periodicity, the necessary information crossings to adequately manage the segmentation regime”, it was clarified.

In addition, the Under-Secretary for the Institutional Coordination of Energy was given the go-ahead “to plan and sign the agreements with the delegations of public services similar to the provincial or municipal districts, in order to establish the implementation of the segmentation”.

Where to register to access gas and electricity concessions

Article 4 of the resolution informs that there will be two ways to make the affidavit to access concessions for natural gas and electricity.

On the one hand, you can upload digital way, in place www.argentina.gob.arvia mobile devices and personal computers. Instead, there will be the possibility of carrying out the procedure in public service offices of the companies supplying the services and of ANSES.

“The level of concessions corresponding to the application submitted will be determined according to the parameters referred to in Article 2 of Decree 332/2022 on the basis of the information declared by users up to the Undersecretary for Energy Planning through the information available to the agencies of the national state. information provided in the affidavits “, was specified in Article 8 of the Resolution.

At the same time, it was reported that users requesting the benefit of this resolution may require reconsideration using the form available on the same website where they filed the declaration.

All users must complete the form to keep benefitsregardless of whether they are covered by “segmentation” or not. The only ones who will be exempt from completing them are those who believe they will accept the loss of state contributions.

With this provision, promoted by the group linked to the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, calmost 10% of the population will pay the full rate. The measure will concern the areas considered “polygons with high payment capacity based on the value of the square meter” and would be approximately 500,000 households in cities and suburbs, including countries.

Also, in that segment will stop receiving a subsidy are all those who earn more than 333 thousand pesos, the equivalent of 3.5 Total Basic Baskets (CBT) for a family of four, which as of April was $ 95,260 each. The increases, in these cases, will be applied only in September, even if, as pointed out by Casa Rosada in recent days, they will appear “proportionate for the months of July and August”.

Those who own 3 or more properties, have 3 or more vehicles under the age of five, or own luxury aircraft or boats will also be excluded from the special rate.

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